A temple still under construction outside Shizhang County was reduced to rubble by a bolt of divine purple lightning.
The locals argued among themselves, insisting that someone had angered Heaven by worshipping an evil god.
The powerful Lou family, the gentry who had built the temple, claimed it had merely been destroyed in an accidental fire.
The matter could not be concealed. It reached the provincial governor, who ordered a full investigation to be completed within seven days.
Fang Qi, equipped with a pair of spirit eyes that could see through evil and a few barely adequate Daoist arts, investigates the sinister temple as the lowest-ranking observer at the Spirit Appraisal Pavilion.
His superiors want him to take the fall, while the Lou family and the evil god want him dead.
But the sinister temple is only the beginning. More demons and monsters emerge, and evil sects such as the Demon Gate, Ghost Court, and Demon Clan gradually reveal themselves. They want more than to wreak havoc among mortals: they want to seize complete control of the human world.
One wrong step, and Fang Qi will be on his way to the underworld.
All he can do is his utmost to eradicate every evil in the world, rise to the pinnacle of power, and attain immortality!
